Ghana: A Fateful Moment At the Maginot Hiiton

For Kwame Nkrumah, the big day had finally arrived. After two
years of cross-continental lobbying, one year of round-the-clock
building, and an embarrassing two-month delay (to finish the building),
the Father of Pan-Africanism was ready at last to receive the homage
of Africa's other leaders. The third annual conference of the Organization
of African Unity had begun.

To accommodate the chiefs of the organization's 36 member nations,
Nkrumah had spent nearly $50 million on everything from lettered T
shirts ("Long live the O.A.U.!") to his celebrated "Project 600," the
conference-headquarters complex itself....